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influences. But I look to a lot of things, many things visual and
sensory experiences influence me. I have a full unconscious
library of things that I’ve seen, heard and felt which suddenly
come up while working and I have no idea where exactly I saw
them on the first place. view on the future of women in cinema. For more than half
a century women have been discouraged from getting
behind the camera, however in the last decades there are
signs that something is changing. What's your view on the
future of women in cinema?
I’ve studied dance and physical improvisation, so I feel much
more comfortable with the language of the body which is the
language of the soul rather than with words, which come from the
structured classification that the rational brain makes of the world
around us. So I am always more directed towards having
characters do more and talk less. I very often feel something, one
of those overwhelming feelings that we all sometimes have of
happiness, fear, loneliness or connection and hope, and I tend to
think: How would that look like? Which setting? What body
gesture? What back story? And in this search the work of the
dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch also has a very big
influence on me. I think it is very encouraging for us starting to direct now to see
that there is so much in the media about the inequalities of the
industry and so many platforms like Cinéomen, festivals and
funding opportunities focusing on women filmmakers. But there
is still so much to do. There are plenty of people, male white
professionals, both young and older, in the film industry that are
convinced that such a problem doesn’t exist, cos they personally
don’t make any difference between male and female when they
pick who to work with. And even if they think that is true and they
are not influenced by the stereotypes, denying that this problem
exists, makes them part of the problem.
We want to catch this occasion to ask you to express your There are more women than men in this planet, almost no
woman is forced to stay at home anymore in western societies,
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